Requests: HTTP for Humans

Requests is an Apache2 Licensed HTTP library, written in Python, for human
beings.

Most existing Python modules for sending HTTP requests are extremely
verbose and cumbersome. Python's builtin urllib2 module provides most of
the HTTP capabilities you should need, but the api is thoroughly broken.
It requires an enormous amount of work (even method overrides) to
perform the simplest of tasks.

Requests allow you to send HTTP/1.1 requests. You can add headers, form data,
multipart files, and parameters with simple Python dictionaries, and access the
response data in the same way. It's powered by httplib and urllib3, but it does all the hard work and crazy
hacks for you.

Features

International Domains and URLs

Keep-Alive & Connection Pooling

Sessions with Cookie Persistence

Browser-style SSL Verification

Basic/Digest Authentication

Elegant Key/Value Cookies

Automatic Decompression

Unicode Response Bodies

Multipart File Uploads

Connection Timeouts

Thread-safety

Installation

To install requests, simply:

$ pip install requests

Or, if you absolutely must:

$ easy_install requests

But, you really shouldn't do that.

Contribute

Check for open issues or open a fresh issue to start a discussion around a feature idea or a bug. There is a Contributor Friendly tag for issues that should be ideal for people who are not very familiar with the codebase yet.

Fork the repository on Github to start making your changes to the master branch (or branch off of it).

Write a test which shows that the bug was fixed or that the feature works as expected.

Send a pull request and bug the maintainer until it gets merged and published. :) Make sure to add yourself to AUTHORS.